Corrections & Amplifications

Updated May 18, 1998 1:18 p.m. ET

AN ARTICLE Friday about a speech by Philip Marineau, PepsiCo Inc.'s North American beverage chief, concerning exclusive pacts in the soft-drink industry, inadvertently omitted two paragraphs in some print editions, rendering meaningless a response by a Coca-Cola Co. spokesman involving the word "slavery." Here are the omitted paragraphs and the rebuttal:

A Coke spokeswoman recently said supplying a competing brand could represent a "conflict of interest" for food distributors who have agreements with...